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FORT MYERS, Fla. -

Emotions ran high as two parents appeared in court, accused of leaving their one year old child inside a hot car. Family members of one of the parents claim the death was all just an accident.

After losing their one-year-old child, family members say 23-year-old Kathleen Jennings and 26-year-old Michael Clark have already been through enough.

"It's just a tragic accident and it's just sad they got to sit in jail after just burying their baby," said Ricky Freeman, Clark's step-father.

Police say on July 31, Jennings and Clark left their one year old son, Marquel Clark, alone in the car.

The temperature that day in Cape Coral was 94 degrees.

By the time Jennings and Clark realized where they left their son, it was too late.

Wednesday, the two made their first appearance before a judge via TV.

Already going through depression, family members made their plea on behalf of Jennings and Clark.

"She had been doing everything in her power to try to get over this and I think she suffered enough, your honor. We are just asking as a family that she be given a reasonable bond that we can afford to try to bond her out," said Freeman.

But the bond was set at $65,000 for Jennings and $75,000 for Clark.

They were arrested Tuesday on charges of child neglect and leaving a child in a vehicle causing great bodily harm.

"They just left counseling yesterday. I thought maybe if they were going to arrest them, they would've done it at the counseling office. They get home and the next thing they know is the U.S. Marshal jumping out of the bushes, guns drawn everywhere," Freeman said.

Jennings and Clark were taken from their North Fort Myers home and put in a jail cell.

Freeman says the couple's three other children are staying with family.

"We thought never in a million years we'd be going through something like this and they still grieving their baby right now," he said.